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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumstrump ran on NOT cutting medicaid....will the media let him get away with it?
there's video of him saying this over and over again
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/03/10/trump-promises-not-to-cut-medicaid-newday.cnn
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trump ran on NOT cutting medicaid....will the media let him get away with it? (Original Post)
spanone
Jul 2017
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Zambero
(8,964 posts)1. a 2-hour documentary would be inadequate to cover Trump's lies
The larger share of media media figures that blatant lying on Trump's part is beside the point. It is constant, ongoing, normalized, and therefore no longer newsworthy. Indeed, a sinister approach for allowing one's dishonesty to proceed unchecked, but effective nevertheless.
Chipper Chat
(9,680 posts)2. his base doesn't care.
Remember his famous quotee
I could go out into fifth Avenue and shoot Medicare and I wouldn't lose a single vote.
spanone
(135,844 posts)3. they will care when they can't get their medicare..but rethugs set it up so they'll already...
be re-elected before the reductions go into effect
Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)4. OR if Ds happen to take over
they will "own it!"
And, even if Rs are in power when it gets blown up, they will still blame liberals and their pods will believe it.